Puducherry Shopping Festival 2009-2010 Shuffle results

Puducherry Shopping Festival 2009-2010 Shuffle results has been announced today (21-Feb-10).

Details of Puducherry Shopping Festival 2009-2010 Shuffle results:

1st prize – Car (for 6 person)
0498719 – Shanmuga Silks, Puducherry
1167280 – Ram Silks, Puducherry
0742577 – Selva Textiles & Readymades, Puducherry
0709919 – Muthu Gold House, Puducherry
1219692 – Muthu Gold House, Puducherry
0296424 – New Prema Cost Price Shop, Puducherry

2nd Prize – EBike (for 62 person)
Last 5 digits - 40484, 78032, 41853, 56372, 15533,

3rd Prize – Domestic Tour (for 62 person)
Last 5 digits - 10075, 36366, 16917, 99959, 76050

4th Prize – Table top Grinder (for 125 person)
Last 4 digits – 0022

5th Prize – Mixi (for 1250 person)
Last 3 digits – 800

6th Prize – Cooker (for 1250 person)
Last 3 digits – 443

7th Prize – Iron Box (for 1250 person)
Last 3 digits – 732

Consolidated Prize – Gift pack containing Soap & Washing Powder (for 12500 person)
Last 2 digits – 75

The lucky members can collect their prizes on 28th February (Sunday), 6:00 PM at Venkata Nagar Park. Chief Minister V.Vaithilingam and Tourism Minister Malladi Krishna Rao will be distributing the prizes.

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Pondicherry Shopping Festival 2009 - 2010

Pondicherry government has announced to conduct Pondicherry Shopping Festival after having discussion with Chief Minister V.Vaithilingam and his committee.

In Pondicherry, for the past 8 years shopping festival has been celebrated. Due to some problem in bumper prize distribution last year shopping festival was cancelled.

This year shopping festival has been planned to function from December 1, 2009 to January 29, 2010

From this year Puducherry government will be conducting Pondicherry shopping festival. For this a new committee was made under Chief Minister V.Vaithilingam. Chief Minister V.Vaithilingam will be the president and Tourism Minister Malladi Krishna Rao will be the vice president for the committee.

Puducherry government has allotted Rs.70 lakhs for conducting Pondicherry Shopping Festival in Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam. 25 lakhs coupons has been planned to print. Rs. 1000 has been declared has registration fee for the shops to participate in Pondicherry Shopping Festival

Let’s wait for Pondicherry Shopping Festival and win prizes by shopping. Let our shopping makes us Lucky.

Happy Shopping

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Pondicherry Shopping festival 2007 – 2008

Shop-hopping in Pondy

Clothes, sweets, crackers, consumer durables… shoppers in Puducherry are busy.

Shorter days and early sunsets bring just one thing to mind – Deepavali. Jawaharlal Nehru Street turns bright and colourful a tad earlier than usual with the festival of sounds, lights, sweets, new clothes and gifts just around the corner.

Colorfully dressed mannequins are out on the sidewalks standing amidst clothes hanging from ropes, with shoppers feeling the fabric and enquiring about the rates. In offices, people are sneaking out to shop with family. Cooking at home and picking up children from school have taken a backseat.

Shopping plans also depend much on the weather forecasts. However, the shopping forecast for this year’s Deepavali reads bright coloured designer saris and lightweight jewellery from Kerala and Bengal. Of course, no list is complete without the sumptuous sweets and fire works.

Embroidered saris

The only fad in traditional attire that is catching on is the embellishments such as zari, chumki, zardosi and embroidery. And this you get on every kind of fabric from silks, chiffons and cottons to Italian crepe and georgette.

“People want something different from the mundane and now for more than a year, people are opting for a lot of embroidered chiffons and synthetics. They come pinks, blues, greens and oranges. These days even in weddings you see a lot of women in such saris. Women must choose appropriate jewellery such as meenakari or silver pieces to go with these,” says V.V. Ramani, artist and designer.

Going by the “synthetic-spell”, we wonder if the silk sari has lost its sheen. Of the sari sale at Saratha on Jawaharlal Nehru Street, around 70 percent are synthetic and 30 percent, silk. “We cannot wear silk to small functions, temples or family outings and can only wear them to weddings. The synthetics are easy to maintain and last long.” Said sisters Latha and Santha, home-makers, who prefer to shop in Puducherry rather than in Chennai.

To stay in the race, silk saris are reinventing themselves with all kinds of embellishments. Sample the bright Benares silk saris at the new chandra Sarees showroom at 22, Chetty Street (at the cutting of Mission Street). “Kundan work, beads, sequins and embroidery add zing to the plain silk saris,” says Sanjay Kochar. Here you can also pick saris made of jute mixed with cotton and silk.

Shirts and trousers for men can be picked from places such as Casablanca, Megamart on Mission Street, Rajendras and Muthu Silk House on Jawaharlal Nehru Street.

If you are looking for discounts on clothes, it’s the wrong time of the year. You get offers and gifts only for consumer durables. Naresh of Naresh Appliances on MG Road said most customers come looking for television sets and washing machines.

Gifts for Deepavali

Gifts for friends and relatives are not forgotten and people buy casseroles, three in one containers, images of gods and goddesses and home décor articles. Offices too give away gifts, but mostly of eatables such as sweets, dry fruits and nuts and chocolates. Some pack crackers too, and these can be got from the special Deepavali Bazar at Anna Thidal and at select Khadi and Village Industries Board outlets.

Shopping festival

Many shoppers are waiting for the Puducherry Shopping festival, which will go on till January 15, 2008. The festival offers prizes worth Rs. 2.50 crore and the lucky customers can take home cars, gold coins, two wheelers, microwave ovens, table top wet grinders, rice cookers and sim cards.

Source : THE HINDU

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